Hazel Reed fills her gas tank at the Midway Shell station. After weeks of watching prices fall, she noticed painful change in prices Monday.
"It's ridiculous," said Reed. "I just don't know what it is doing."
What it's doing is going up. Prices went up 8 cents since Friday, with a San Diego average on April 20 of $3.18.
And Reed knows what happens when prices go up.
"You can't go out of town. You can't even take trips or out to dinner," said Reed.
"It used to bother me but not anymore," said Marilyn Love who was stopping to fill up her Lexus. "Because it happens all the time, so why get upset by that?"
Alex Hernandez follows the price of gas. A year ago gas prices in San Diego were up more than a dollar a gallon.
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"Well you just know it's being manipulated and I don't like that," said Hernandez.
When it comes to paying more at the pump, drivers realize prices go up and down, but when do they think it's gotten out of hand?
Reed said it's bad above $2.95. But Hernandez told NBC 7, "I'm happier at $3 versus $4."
